Quotes About Achievement

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.

Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.

To learn to do backflips and front flips, you had to fall and bump your head a couple times. I've been doing them since I was a little one, though. Just something I've enjoyed doing, just flip.

I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.

The height of my goals will not hold me in awe, though I may stumble often before they are reached.

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

Even though it feels like you are so far away from the big leagues, my love for the game kept me motivated to get through the hard times in the minors.

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

The paradox of perfection is that you should try and achieve it by doing quality work even though you know you can never achieve it.

When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise.

I don't enjoy anything while I'm doing it. I enjoy having done things, though.

The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody else could have played. Pacino owned Michael Corleone... but DeNiro could have owned it as well. Who else, though, but Val Kilmer could have nailed Jim Morrison? Does anyone besides Will Ferrell pull off Ron Burgundy?

At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

You want to do a few things really well because you want to come out with a product that is fully baked, even though it may be lacking in a few features or whatever, rather than the one that's all-achieving but not doing anything too well.

There was nothing extraordinary about the work I was doing as a composer though I had delivered hits.

I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.

Motivational speaking became my career. Who would ever have thought it?

I'll always have this blue-collar connection. For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life.